{"id":5061,"date":"2024-11-15T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/japanese-princess-yuriko-oldest-member-of-imperial-family-dies-at-101\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T06:00:55","slug":"japanese-princess-yuriko-oldest-member-of-imperial-family-dies-at-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/japanese-princess-yuriko-oldest-member-of-imperial-family-dies-at-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Princess Yuriko, oldest member of imperial family, dies at 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            <strong>Tokyo (AP) \u2014 <\/strong>Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito\u2019s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said. She was 101.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Yuriko died Friday at a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. It did not announce the cause of death, but Japanese media said she died of pneumonia.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Born in 1923 as an aristocrat, Yuriko married at age 18 to Prince Mikasa, the younger brother of Hirohito and the uncle of current Emperor Naruhito, months before the start of World War II.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            She has recounted living in a shelter with her husband and their baby daughter after their residence was burned down in the US fire bombings of Tokyo in the final months of the war in 1945.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Yuriko raised five children and supported Mikasa\u2019s research into ancient Near Eastern history, while also serving her official duties and taking part in philanthropic activities. She outlived her husband and all three sons.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Her death reduces Japan\u2019s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, including four men, as the country faces the dilemma of how to maintain the royal family while conservatives in the governing party insist on retaining male-only succession.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The 1947 Imperial House Law, which largely preserves conservative prewar family values, allows only males to take the throne and forces female royal family members who marry commoners to lose their royal status.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The youngest male member of the imperial family, Prince Hisahito \u2014 the nephew of Emperor Naruhito \u2014 is currently the last heir apparent, posing a major problem for a system that doesn\u2019t allow empresses. The government is debating how to keep succession stable without relying on women.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Yuriko had lived a healthy life as a centenarian before suffering a stroke and pneumonia in March. She enjoyed exercise in the morning while watching a daily fitness program on television, the Imperial Household Agency says. She also continued to read multiple newspapers and magazines and enjoyed watching news and baseball on TV. On sunny days, she sat in the palace garden or was wheeled in her wheelchair.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Yuriko was hospitalized after her stroke and had been in and out of intensive care since then. Her overall condition deteriorated over the past week, the Imperial Household Agency said.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo (AP) \u2014 Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito\u2019s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said. She was 101. Yuriko died Friday at a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. It did not announce the cause of death, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}